Bioactive Compounds in Foods, Beverages, and By-Products and Their Functional Potential
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 December 2025 | Viewed by 15
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Interests: sustainability; nutritional value; food security; proteins and amino acids; antioxidant compounds; lipid fraction; vitamin
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Interests: food science and technology; food sustainability; food quality control; food packaging; biopolymers
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Interests: food science; food biochemistry; functional food; functional protein and peptides; bioactive peptides; seed-derived peptide bioactivity
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Interests: food recycling; plant enzyme inhibitors; protein structure and function; recombinant proteins; seed germination; seed storage proteins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioactive compounds exert several beneficial properties for human health, such as reducing the risk of developing chronic diseases, e.g., cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and cardiovascular diseases, and modulating immune responses, age-related diseases, and anti-microbial agents.
To achieve this, they need to be identified, their concentration determined, and these effects investigated. Furthermore, by-products of food processing have also been studied as alternative sources of nutrients and bioactive compounds.
Establishing the chemical composition of raw material is critical to determining its nutritional value and identifying potential nutraceutical molecules with health‐promoting effects.
This Special Issue aims to expand the knowledge on bioactive compounds in foods, beverages, and by-products and their functional potential.
We welcome the submission of original research manuscripts and reviews that explore conventional and analytical techniques, including spectroscopy, chromatography, and mass spectrometry, to provide valuable information about bioactive molecules, nutritional composition, potential contaminants, and allergens in foods, beverages, and by-products.
Prof. Dr. Maria Beatriz Prior Pinto Oliveira
Dr. Carolina De Souza
Dr. Ederlan S. Ferreira
Prof. Dr. Alessio Scarafoni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds in foods, beverages, and/or food by-products
- unconventional raw materials as a source of bioactive compounds
- bioactive compounds in human health and diseases
- bioactive compounds: focus on its mechanism of action
- bioavailability of the bioactive compounds
- studies (in silico, in vitro, vivo, and clinical) with a focus on bioactive potential
- analytical techniques to identify bioactive compounds
- trends and advances in bioactive compounds analysis
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